Text messages can multiply with new tool

This could be good or this could be bad. Good, to get many people together at once. Bad, since it allows to actually spam mobile phone users.

The new tool developed is called Txtmob (http://www.txtmob.com). Wired News writes that it was "unveiled last month at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. There, TxtMob allowed more than 260 subscribers to automatically blast text messages to the mobile phones of every other subscriber."

Basically, it can be good because it is possible to quickly alert people about imminent threats, gather them to assemblies, and disseminate messages to a widely dispersed workforce. But, it might also increase the amount of spam messages on the mobile phones, if used by the "wrong guys".

However, isn't this the case in anything? So we might have to get used to it. Wired News continues in writing that currently "TxtMob is being used exclusively for political organizing. Still, once the technology has been fully proven after the conventions, it can be launched in any number of environments", as indicated above.